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Kawelka, The (Ongka's Big Moka)*
- 1976 ----- color ----- 54 min ----- 16mm/dvd/vhs
- (Disappearing World series) (Odyssey series) The Kawelka highlanders of Papua New Guinea are an intelligent, spectacular-looking people who dress up in elaborate costumes and decorations for a ceremony called a Moka. The essential idea behind the ceremony is that of giving, but the motives behind the giving are complex and ambiguous. Concentrates on the efforts of Ongka, the head man, to gather together a gift of monumental proportions to give to a neighboring, and rival, tribal leader. The gift, gathered with huge effort consists of 600 pigs, cows, a truck, a motorcycle and a small fortune in cash. The larger your gift in Papua New Guinea the greater your victory over the recipient. (16mm and DVD restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Austronesia)
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